Quantstamp is a smart contract security company that is developing the Quantstamp protocol and automated security tools, and conducts manual audits. It aims to enhance smart contract security and the reputation of projects that create smart contracts by producing openly accessible scan reports.

Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin is apparently contemplating a “detach” from working on ethereum. In Twitter posts late last week, Buterin said three other developers were handling the bulk of the work, and that the blockchain protocol can “absolutely survive” without him.